Reel History

Author : Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782396475

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Reel History by Alex von Tunzelmann Pdf

From ancient Egypt to the Tudors to the Nazis, the film industry has often defined how we think of the past. But how much of what you see on the screen is true? And does it really matter if filmmakers just make it all up? Picking her way through Hollywood's version of events, acclaimed historian Alex von Tunzelmann sorts the fact from the fiction. Along the way, we meet all our favourite historical characters, on screen and in real life: from Cleopatra to Elizabeth I, from Spartacus to Abraham Lincoln, and from Attila the Hun to Nelson Mandela. Based on the long-running column in the Guardian, Reel History takes a comic look at the history of the world as told through the movies - the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly.

Author : Robert Brent Toplin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015003129880

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Reel History by Robert Brent Toplin Pdf

The author makes an argument for clemency in judging Hollywood's interpretations of history and thoroughly investigates its serious limitations and opportunities to construe history.

Author : Robert Brent Toplin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056426714

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Reel History by Robert Brent Toplin Pdf

The author makes an argument for clemency in judging Hollywood's interpretations of history and thoroughly investigates its serious limitations and opportunities to construe history.

Author : Patricia R. Zimmermann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253209447

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Reel Families by Patricia R. Zimmermann Pdf

Examines amateur film, filmmaking, and equipment from the late 1890s to the present, focusing on the emerging and changing discourse of aesthetics, creativity and innovation, and standards of production.

Author : Robert Morris Seiler,Tamara Palmer Seiler
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926836997

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Reel Time by Robert Morris Seiler,Tamara Palmer Seiler Pdf

In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From the first entrepreneurs who attempted to lure customers in to movie exhibition halls, to the digital revolution and its impact on moviegoing, Reel Time highlights the pivotal role of amusement venues in shaping the leisure activities of working- and middle-class people across North America.

Author : Donald A. Ritchie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195339550

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The Oxford Handbook of Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie Pdf

'The Oxford Handbook of Oral History' brings together 40 authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations.

Author : David Konow
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250013590

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Reel Terror by David Konow Pdf

From the author of the definitive heavy metal history, Bang Your Head, a behind-the-scenes look a century of horror films Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Paranormal Activity, Konow explores its all-time highs and lows, why the genre has been overlooked, and how horror films just might help us overcome fear. His on-set stories and insights delve into each movie and its effect on American culture. For novices to all out film buffs, this is the perfection companion to this Halloween's movie marathons.

Author : Mia E. M. Treacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317273202

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Reframing the Past by Mia E. M. Treacey Pdf

Reframing the Past traces what historians have written about film and television from 1898 until the early 2000s. Mia Treacey argues that historical engagement with film and television should be reconceptualised as Screened History: an interdisciplinary, international field of research to incorporate and replace what has been known as ‘History and Film’. It draws from the fields of Film, Television and Cultural Studies to critically analyse key works and connect past scholarship with contemporary research. Reconsidered as Screened History, the works of Pierre Sorlin, Marc Ferro, John O’Connor, Robert Rosenstone and Robert Toplin are explored alongside lesser known but equally important contributions. This book identifies a number of common themes and ideas that have been explored by historians for decades: the use of history on film and television as a way to teach the past; the challenge of filmic and televisual history to more traditional historiography; and an ongoing battle to find an ‘appropriate’ historical way to engage with Film Studies and Theory. Screened History offers an approach to exploring History, Film and Television that allows room for future developments, while connecting them to a rich and diverse body of past scholarship. Combining a narrative of historical research on film and television over the past century with a reconceptualisation of the field as Screened History, Reframing the Past is essential reading both for established scholars of History and Film, Film History and other related disciplines, and to students new to the field.

Author : Gregg Mitman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674715713

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Reel Nature by Gregg Mitman Pdf

Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the wilderness. As cities grew and frontiers disappeared, film emerged to feed an insatiable curiosity about wildlife. The camera promised to bring us into contact with the animal world, undetected and unarmed. Yet the camera's penetration of this world has inevitably brought human artifice and technology into the picture as well. In the first major analysis of American nature films in the twentieth century, Gregg Mitman shows how our cultural values, scientific needs, and new technologies produced the images that have shaped our contemporary view of wildlife. Like the museum and the zoo, the nature film sought to recreate the experience of unspoiled nature while appealing to a popular audience, through a blend of scientific research and commercial promotion, education and entertainment, authenticity and artifice. Travelogue-expedition films, like Teddy Roosevelt's African safari, catered to upper- and middle-class patrons who were intrigued by the exotic and entertained by the thrill of big-game hunting and collecting. The proliferation of nature movies and television shows in the 1950s, such as Disney's True-Life Adventures and Marlin Perkins's Wild Kingdom, made nature familiar and accessible to America's baby-boom generation, fostering the environmental activism of the latter part of the twentieth century. Reel Nature reveals the shifting conventions of nature films and their enormous impact on our perceptions of, and politics about, the environment. Whether crafted to elicit thrills or to educate audiences about the real-life drama of threatened wildlife, nature films then and now reveal much about the yearnings of Americans to be both close to nature and yet distinctly apart.

Author : Elizabeth Jo Lampl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Clara Barton National Historic Site (Md.)
ISBN : PURD:32754078643438

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Clara Barton National Historic Site: Developmental history by Elizabeth Jo Lampl Pdf

Author : D. B. Homel
Publisher : Forrest Park Pub
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Fishing reels
ISBN : 1879522144

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Antique Fly Reels by D. B. Homel Pdf

Author : Oliver Stone
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780358346234

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Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone Pdf

An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stone's scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, Midnight Express. Chasing the Light is a true insider's look at Hollywood's years of upheaval in the 1970s and '80s.

Author : Robert Brent Toplin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0252065360

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History by Hollywood by Robert Brent Toplin Pdf

Presenting Hollywood as one of our most influential interpreters of history, Toplin offers a close examination of Mississippi Burning, JFK, Sergeant York, Missing, Bonnie and Clyde, Patton, All the President's Men, and Norma Rae.--Distributed by Syndetics Solutions, LLC.

Author : Jerome de Groot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134148936

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Consuming History by Jerome de Groot Pdf

Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional narratives such as Da Vinci Code to DNA genealogical tools – to analyze how history works in contemporary popular culture. Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and the way in which new technologies have brought about a shift in access to history, from online game playing to internet genealogy. He discusses the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history, and raises important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Whilst mainly focussing on the UK, the book also compares the experiences of the USA, France and Germany. Consuming History is an important and engaging analysis of the social consumption of history and offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.

Author : Eleftheria Thanouli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501340796

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History and Film by Eleftheria Thanouli Pdf

History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. Eleftheria Thanouli does this by changing the agenda altogether - combining a macro-level perspective with a micro-level one in order to argue that cinematic history is the dominant form of historiography in the 20th century, as it succeeded in remediating and repurposing the key formal, rhetorical, and ideological practices of 19th-century professional historiography. With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.